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I am pretty excited about Skate 2 also, I am trying to decide if I should buy it or just rent it until I finish it. With the ability to move stuff around to make your own spots to skate, it will probably have good replay value.

John Spartan you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.

well to answer why ppl don't skate irl, it takes any where from 1 - to rest of your life to learn how to skate. I have been skating since i was 14 and i still can't do half the shit i can do with a flick of the stick in skate.

also i ripped a tendant in my kneecap, so half the time i have to becaful while skating, in Skate i can throw him off a building and he'll be ok. ;-]D

Same reason people play Guitar Hero, FPSs, or anything else for that matter.

Nah, the thing is as I see it, and the very reason I only like the EXTREME sport games out there, is that the rest of the things I can acctualy do IRL.

You can't kill people irl like in a FPS, you can't be a leader of a expandle army irl and just do whatever the hell you feel like them etc etc

Basicly, I'd say I play games because I can't do it IRL.

Now some sport/racing games you CAN do IRL, thus I don't see a good reason to not just do that instead. Ofcourse as already mentioned you can't pull of the same tricks, but unless they are extreme somehow I don't see the excitement in it.

Soo your dude did a 360? Wow, thats cool. Again, if it's some crazy as shit like jumping betwen building and landing on a rail, it's a totaly difrent story, but frome what I seen skate games tend to be quite... lame.

Nah, the thing is as I see it, and the very reason I only like the EXTREME sport games out there, is that the rest of the things I can acctualy do IRL.

You can't kill people irl like in a FPS, you can't be a leader of a expandle army irl and just do whatever the hell you feel like them etc etc

Basicly, I'd say I play games because I can't do it IRL.

Now some sport/racing games you CAN do IRL, thus I don't see a good reason to not just do that instead. Ofcourse as already mentioned you can't pull of the same tricks, but unless they are extreme somehow I don't see the excitement in it.

Soo your dude did a 360? Wow, thats cool. Again, if it's some crazy as shit like jumping betwen building and landing on a rail, it's a totaly difrent story, but frome what I seen skate games tend to be quite... lame.

I've always thought of skating as being extremely boring IRL, but never had any problem having fun with the games. Of course, the Tony Hawk games I played weren't really skating as much as they were superman with a skateboard glued to his feet.

Nah, the thing is as I see it, and the very reason I only like the EXTREME sport games out there, is that the rest of the things I can acctualy do IRL.

You can't kill people irl like in a FPS, you can't be a leader of a expandle army irl and just do whatever the hell you feel like them etc etc

Basicly, I'd say I play games because I can't do it IRL.

Now some sport/racing games you CAN do IRL, thus I don't see a good reason to not just do that instead. Ofcourse as already mentioned you can't pull of the same tricks, but unless they are extreme somehow I don't see the excitement in it.

Soo your dude did a 360? Wow, thats cool. Again, if it's some crazy as shit like jumping betwen building and landing on a rail, it's a totaly difrent story, but frome what I seen skate games tend to be quite... lame.

Then it sounds like Tony Hawk is for you.

SKATE is for people who want a more authentic skating experience. It is not just the act of skating but the whole life style of a Pro Skater that is represented with skate.

Impossible tricks have been done to death in Tony Hawk's games, Skate brings something fresh and new to the skating simulation market.

If you want to make a comparison between shoot em up type games.

Skate2 would be GTA4 where as Tony Hawk's previous games would be Half-Life 2 or Crysis or some game where you are not shooting Humans and are doing impossible things.

I get what you are saying though. I like to watch movies that contain themes not set in our reality, but for gaming I guess I the more real it feels the better.

Killing aliens and 1000 metre jumps gets old fast.

Last edited by Kinjo695; 01-21-2009 at 10:47.

John Spartan you are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.